LPN PRN SUD
About The Position
Blue Ridge Mountain Recovery in Ball Ground, Georgia, is seeking a PRN Licensed Practical Nurse to provide nursing care and services within the standards and scope of nursing practice defined by state regulations and facility and corporate policies. The role supports patients receiving substance use disorder treatment and prioritizes patient safety, compassionate care, and professional customer service. The position offers day or night shifts consisting of 12-hour shifts: 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. or 6:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. The selected candidate must be able to attend a full week of orientation during daytime hours.
Requirements
- Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
- Current LPN/LVN license as required by the state.
- CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification; training is available upon hire and offered by the facility.
- Must be able to attend a full week of orientation during daytime hours.
Nice To Haves
- One or more years of nursing experience in the clinical area of service provided by the facility.
Responsibilities
- Monitor patient health and provide basic care using the nursing process within the LPN/LVN scope of practice, carrying out care-plan objectives and goals.
- Model customer-service expectations and respond with urgency to matters affecting patient safety.
- Collaborate with others to address patients’ physical, biopsychosocial, age-related, developmental, and cultural needs, and help resolve customer complaints.
- Provide for patients’ basic comfort and implement individualized nursing interventions in the plan of care.
- Apply appropriate interventions to promote wellness and maintain patients’ wellness.
- Discuss care with patients, listen to their concerns, and report changes in status or concerns to registered nurses and doctors.
- Communicate therapeutically and professionally with patients, visitors, coworkers, and others involved in treatment.
- Deliver medications safely in accordance with policies and procedures, physician orders, and current practice.
- Maintain professional nursing standards in accordance with facility policies, governing and credentialing bodies, performance-improvement standards, and psychiatric nursing standards.
- Accurately and thoroughly report and document patient symptoms, responses, and progress.
- Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.
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